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Bahija Gouimi
Bahija Gouimi is the Founder and President of AMAL (Association des Malades Atteints de Leucémies) in Morocco. She has been a leukaemia patient for more than 18 years. She is also the co-founder of CML Life Africa, part of the Max Global Network, the collection of patient support associations focused on chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). She is also a member of the CML Advocates Network Steering Committee as a representative for Africa and Middle East since 2011.
She has written wrote four books (two in Arabic and two in French) about her story with cancer and has given many interviews on TV and radio programs. In 2017, she won the First civil personality Prize by the Moroccan Ministry of Civil Society.
She lives in in Marrakesh with her three children, where she has been working as a communication teacher for 26 years. She speaks Arabic, French and English.